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The Justice Dept. appealed part of a ruling to appoint an arbiter to review documents from Mar-a-Lago, seeking to regain access to some material.

Friday, September 16, 2022 9:32 PM ET

In a 29-page filing, lawyers with the department did not ask the appeals court to stop the installation of the arbiter, even though they called the lower court's decision "unprecedented" and misguided. Instead, they asked the appeals court to let the F.B.I. immediately regain unfettered access to about 100 classified documents and not to submit those through the independent arbiter's vetting process.

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